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为什么没有“德国梦”？高斋翻译TransElegant整理的CATTI和MTI备考资料Why Merkel dreams in black and white英国《金融时报》专栏作家西蒙?库柏If Donald Trump is the world’s most colourful politician, Angela Merkel is probably the least. She is resolutely tedious even by the standards of German politics. The new German verb merkelnmeans “to do nothing, make no decisions or statement”. She never talks about a “German dream”, and you will not see her campaign under the slogan, “Make Germany great again”.如果说唐纳德?特朗普(Donald Trump)是世界上最多彩纷呈的政治人士，那么安格拉?默克尔(Angela Merkel)很可能就是最单调乏味的那个。即使按照德国政坛的标准，她也是绝对乏味的。德文新动词“merkeln”的意思是“什么也不做、什么决定也不作出、什么声明也不发表”。她从不谈论“德国梦”，你也不会看到她的竞选活动喊出“让德国再次伟大起来”的口号。Even when she suddenly opened Germany’s borders to more than one million people last summer, she phrased this quixotic act in pragmatic language: “Wirschaffen das,” “We can do this.” Germany’s centre has largely held since, despite big advances for the anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland in last Sunday’s regional elections. Even amid the migrant crisis, most mainstream German politicians have remained boring pragmatists. Their aim: very slowly improve most people’s lives a little, while averting disaster.即使是在去年夏天她突然向100多万人开放德国国境的时候，她谈及这种唐吉坷德式行为所用的语言也是务实的：“我们可以做这个”(Wirschaffen das)。自那以来德国的中间立场主流大体上保持下来，尽管反移民的德国新选择党(Alternative für Deutschland)在最近的地区选举中取得重大进展。即使是在移民危机期间，大多数主流德国政治人士也依然是乏味的务实者。他们的目标是：非常缓慢地渐渐改善大多数人的生活，同时避免灾难。That distinguishes Germany from other large countries. In the US, France and Russia, politics is couched in the language of dreams, greatness, heroes and utopia. There are pragmatic political cultures and utopian ones, and, oddly, it’s the pragmatists who get closer to utopia.这把德国和其他大国区分开来。在美国、法国和俄罗斯，政治都是用有关梦想、伟大、英雄和乌托邦的语言来包装的。世界上有务实的政治文化、也有乌托邦主义的政治文化，吊诡的是，更接近乌托邦的是务实者。Utopian politicians raise high expectations that they can only disappoint. Every American president campaigns as a great leader who will restore the American dream but then governs in prose. Pretty soon people start complaining th